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Reaction converging Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs - The New York Times Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Shared emphasis AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 7d ago
⚡ 1 h early

Hugging face model evaluation security incident

18 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Ethan Mollick, Vincent Conitzer, Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
“Previously, these AI hacking stories were about breaches in test environments, where any question of AI breaching security was purely theoretical. This is something else. openai.com/index/huggin...” evidence ↗
18 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 Ryan Calo Grace Anna Mills +10
6 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Grace: This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
Grace: Maybe the most concerning part is the OpenAI claim to not have known about this before investigating?
Grace: Well, I think the model passed the test
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Primary source openai.com ↗
Established Culture, work & education Analysis 10d ago
⚡ 9 h early
NYT essay AI won't steal jobs

Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs - The New York Times

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
“Maybe you mean this from 2023? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... "[LLMs] are not reasoning machines. [...] It’s not just that they don’t test their outputs to make sure they’re correct or logical, or that they fail to do so in certain instances. They can’t, a…” evidence ↗
12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Jeffrey P. Bigham zeynep tufekci Eileen Clancy 🧿 Daniel Solove Neil Turkewitz samuel mehr +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Maybe you mean this from 2023? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... "[LLMs] are not reasoning machines. [...] It’s not just that they don’t test their outputs to make sure they’re correct or logical, or that they fail to do so in certain instances. They can’t, a…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“usually a fan of Zeynep's accounts, but AI will get better and better at customer service until it's at least as good as humans, … a big part of that will be systems engineering, including architectures that enable one AI interaction to share with the next …”

10 experts discussed this · 51 posts
Eugene Vinitsky: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
Eugene Vinitsky: The only prompting was to tell the model that it was possible to check that links were correct
Ted Underwood: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
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AI mania eviscerates decision-making essay

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · tante, Baldur Bjarnason
“"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it." AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
tante VE, cybersocial occult investigator By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈 Baldur Bjarnason
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
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Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it." AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making”

Primary source ludic.mataroa.blog ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 10d ago
Anti-AI sentiment 2026 essay

Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Baldur Bjarnason
““Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026” https://www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2026/ > We can point out all of the harms being done by the technology right now, and we can speak to the additional harms that will be done if things continue like this, but…” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest tante Charles Logan Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র Baldur Bjarnason

““Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026” https://www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2026/ > We can point out all of the harms being done by the technology right now, and we can speak to the additional harms that will be done if things continue like this, but…”

“"I’ve struggled to write something that would persuade my colleagues and friends to ditch AI and affirm their avowed beliefs about climate change, the trustworthiness of megacorporations, and our right to live and work with dignity." Hating AI in 2026”

Primary source eamoncaddigan.net ↗
Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
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Mystery AI Hype Theater state of emergency episode

State of Emergency, 2026.06.29 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute
“New on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000!: AI boosters want to hand off emergency services to the bullshit generators. @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social take on the latest automated horrors threatening our collective health and safety. Listen …” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Alex Hanna The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Baldur Bjarnason

“New on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000!: AI boosters want to hand off emergency services to the bullshit generators. @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social take on the latest automated horrors threatening our collective health and safety. Listen …”

“One of my worst speech technology nightmares has been happening right in my own city! In the latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, @alexhanna.bsky.social and I dig into it: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...”

Primary source buzzsprout.com ↗
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3 experts · 6 posts · 2d ago
Timnit Gebru Louise Amoore Baldur Bjarnason
Matches Concern & critique
“Yes, exactly this. I’m concerned that the 2008 banks “too big too fail” were bailed out with public money. As OpenAI and Anthropic embed themselves into government administration and public service…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Timnit Gebru: Its all about "free markets" and "let the market decide" until you have competition that shows how full of shit you are and then you run to daddy US government begging to stop these "bad" Chinese m…
Timnit Gebru: The irony of OpenAI and Anthropic running to the government to save them whenever there’s competition and it’s this government that complains about “handouts” and communism.
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